article thumbnail

8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s a new age for aspiring entrepreneurs, where anyone with a dream or a hobby should be turning it into a business. The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. Patent and Trademark Office site for a few hundred dollars.

Startup 108
article thumbnail

Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

socalTECH

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

Xconomy

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). ” The project leaders are seeking $100 million in funding. But the U.S.

article thumbnail

Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Behind the easy to use interface is a powerful, real time search and discovery engine, which creates a news feed of all of the intersting things happening in your surroundings. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

USC 236
article thumbnail

Interview with Mike Neshat, RFaxis

socalTECH

There is lots of competition from the big companies, legal threats in the industry for chip startups to navigate today, how are you handling that? Mike Neshat: The good news is, we don't compete with Broadcom, Cirrus, or any of the big guys. Combined between the two of us, we've been at this for 54 years.

Patents 100
article thumbnail

How to Get Your Startup Acquired by Larger Brands

Tech Zulu Event

While it is impossible to know what the future holds, startup business owners can bank on the fact that potential future buyers will be evaluating their financial statements in addition to the value of their corporate team, working partnerships, marketing efforts, patents, and reputation. When to Sell.

Startup 40
article thumbnail

GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. News, Gannett, and Tribune. “We Matching ads to content is what they do.